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Conrad Meyer c62ff2800b Deprecate sranddev(3) API 
It serves no useful purpose and wasn't as popular as its equally meritless
cousin, srandomdev(3).

Setting aside the problems with rand(3) in general, the problem with this
interface is that the seed isn't shared with the caller (other than by
attacking the output of the generator, which is trivial, but not a hallmark of
pleasant API design).  The (arguable) utility of rand(3) or random(3) is as a
semi-fast simulation generator which produces consistent results from a given
seed.  These are mutually at odd.  Furthermore, sometimes people got the
mistaken impression that a high quality random seed meant a weak generator like
rand(3) or random(3) could be used for things like cryptographic key
generation.  This is absolutely not so.

The API was never part of a standard and was not widely used in tree.  Existing
in-tree uses have all been removed.

Possible replacement in out of tree codebases:

	char buf[3];
	time_t t;

	time(t);
	strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), "%S", gmtime(&t));
	srand(atoi(buf));

Relnotes:	yes
2019-12-14 08:28:10 +00:00
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atf Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
clang Add a few missed source files to libllvm, for the MK_LLVM_TARGET_BPF=yes 2019-12-10 22:10:25 +00:00
csu csu: Fix dynamiclib/init_test:jcr_test on !HAVE_CTORS archs 2019-11-08 14:28:39 +00:00
geom Add kern.geom.part.separator tunable. This makes it possible 2019-12-13 09:28:44 +00:00
googletest Another round of attempting to squelch -Wdeprecated-declarations, which 2019-09-17 06:07:08 +00:00
lib80211 Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libalias Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libarchive Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libauditd pkgbase: Create a FreeBSD-utilities package and make it the default one 2019-09-05 14:15:47 +00:00
libbe Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libbearssl Add libbearssl 2019-02-26 05:59:22 +00:00
libbegemot Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libblacklist Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
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libbsdstat Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libbsm Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libbsnmp Update dirdeps.mk and gendirdeps.mk 2019-12-11 17:38:15 +00:00
libbz2 Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libc Deprecate sranddev(3) API 2019-12-14 08:28:10 +00:00
libc_nonshared
libc++ Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libc++experimental Rework CXXSTD setting via r345708 2019-04-22 18:38:54 +00:00
libcalendar Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libcam Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libcapsicum pkgbase: Create a FreeBSD-utilities package and make it the default one 2019-09-05 14:15:47 +00:00
libcasper Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libclang_rt libclang_rt: enable on powerpc* 2019-11-23 19:35:09 +00:00
libcom_err Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libcompat ftime appeared in 7th Edition Unix to replace gtime. 2018-10-28 02:58:15 +00:00
libcompiler_rt Define __SOFT_FP__ for riscv64sf to avoid infinite recursion. 2019-12-04 20:18:12 +00:00
libcrypt Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
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libdl
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libelftc Update ELF Tool Chain to upstream r3769 2019-12-05 13:20:15 +00:00
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libgpio Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
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libiconv_modules
libifconfig Make libifconfig INTERNALLIB 2019-02-25 18:22:20 +00:00
libipsec Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libipt Update Intel Processor Trace decoder library. 2019-10-10 12:46:34 +00:00
libjail Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libkiconv pkgbase: Put a lot of binaries and lib in FreeBSD-runtime 2019-09-05 14:13:08 +00:00
libkvm Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libldns Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
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libmagic Update dirdeps.mk and gendirdeps.mk 2019-12-11 17:38:15 +00:00
libmd Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libmemstat Revert r355706 & r355710 2019-12-13 11:21:28 +00:00
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libomp Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libopenbsd Allow bootstrapping libopenbsd on Linux 2018-12-05 10:58:02 +00:00
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libpathconv
libpcap Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libpe
libpjdlog pkgbase: Create a FreeBSD-utilities package and make it the default one 2019-09-05 14:15:47 +00:00
libpmc libpmc: add MIT SPDX tag to header file 2019-12-12 20:55:43 +00:00
libpmcstat
libproc Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libprocstat Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libradius libradius: Rip out dubious use of srandomdev(3)+random(3) 2019-12-13 04:55:17 +00:00
libregex Further normalize copyright notices 2019-09-26 16:19:22 +00:00
librpcsec_gss
librpcsvc Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
librss Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
librt pkgbase: Create a FreeBSD-utilities package and make it the default one 2019-09-05 14:15:47 +00:00
librtld_db Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libsbuf Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
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libsecureboot Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libsm
libsmb Move nsmb.conf to lib/libsmb/ 2018-09-20 09:31:27 +00:00
libsmdb
libsmutil
libsqlite3 Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libstats Make use of the stats(3) framework in the TCP stack. 2019-12-02 20:58:04 +00:00
libstdbuf
libstdthreads Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libsysdecode Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libtacplus libtacplus: Remove bogus srandomdev+random 2019-12-13 05:11:34 +00:00
libtelnet
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libunbound Update Makefile for 1.8.0, apologies for the breakage. 2018-10-10 08:19:11 +00:00
libusb Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
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libwrap Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libxo Deprecate sranddev(3) API 2019-12-14 08:28:10 +00:00
liby
libypclnt Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libz Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
libzstd Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
msun [PowerPC] Fix SPE floating point environment manipulation 2019-12-12 17:12:18 +00:00
ncurses Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
ofed Update Makefile.depend files 2019-12-11 17:37:53 +00:00
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